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Show I tHj- W. U. Tukinii.U.J j SIGNIFICANT RUSSIAN I'll LIT A-! A-! UY DECREE. St. Petersburg, 20. A general order of the war offico directs an entire reorganization of the Imperial army and calling lo arms of ihe whole adult male population ol Ihe country. The order increases the numerical strength of tho held andlandwehr forces of the empire to a total of 1,600,000 men when required for war purposes, sixty-sis sixty-sis regiments of cossaoL not included. The order creates also a further military mili-tary force of reserves, to be employed in the event of invasion. The order is equivalent to a mobilization of the entire en-tire population and makes every man in the country capable of bearing arms as a soldier on a peace footing'. The reinforcements ordered to the artillery will add a strength of l,uuu guns to i tho batteries already in service. |